All high schools to have broadband internet connection in 2-3 years: Dharmendra PradhanIndia's Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced a significant digital push. All high schools will receive broadband internet ...
25 Mar, 2026, 06.26 PM IST
Gaurav Gogoi writes to Education Minister over historical inaccuracies in Class VIII textbooksGaurav Gogoi, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, has urged Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to rectify historical inaccuracies in ...
13 Aug, 2025, 05.42 PM IST
Telangana’s school textbook writers don’t know how babies are bornGiven the extent to which medical science has evolved, there is no unanswered mystery behind how babies are born. Even an internet-savvy te...
18 Aug, 2019, 02.19 PM IST
NCERT textbooks may get dearer by 30% from next yearThe online orders will enable NCERT to validate the actual requirement of books for the forthcoming academic session and ensure supply with...
28 Jul, 2017, 11.12 AM IST
Supreme Court asks Centre to take a decision on framing national yoga policyA bench headed by Justice M B Lokur asked the Centre to treat the petitions filed on the issue as a representation and take a decision.
29 Nov, 2016, 12.51 PM IST
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in 3.63 lakh schoolsUniversal enrollment is the first goal of SSA and all efforts are being made to bring all children, including girls, to school.
21 Nov, 2016, 01.57 PM IST
SC to hear PIL for making 'Yoga' compulsory for studentsThe plea said right to health cannot be secured without providing 'Yoga and Health Education' or framing a 'National Yoga Policy' to promot...
31 Oct, 2016, 06.04 PM IST
No school bags, homework for classes I and II: CBSESchools should not prescribe too many additional and supplementary textbooks which are at times voluminous, costly and designed in a pedago...
12 Sep, 2016, 11.04 PM IST
NCERT to consider chapter on TeaNETA had appealed to the Smriti Irani to include a chapter on Tea and its role in the economy and society in the school textbooks.
22 May, 2016, 10.15 AM IST
Congress holds demonstration against omission of references to Nehru from textbookCongress today held a demonstration with PCC chief Sachin Pilot saying that it reflected the "mental bankruptcy" of the Raje government.
10 May, 2016, 03.51 PM IST
References to Jawaharlal Nehru in school textbook omitted in RajasthanWhile the names of Mahatma Gandhi, Veer Sawarkar, Bhagat Singh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Subhas Chandra Bose are among those figured in the tex...
08 May, 2016, 04.46 PM IST
Why content on Vivekananda, Bose reduced in NCERT books: CICCommission asked NCERT to disclose why content on Vivekananda was reduced from 1250 to 37 words in Class XII books and removed from Class V...
24 Jan, 2016, 03.19 PM IST
Rajasthan to transform government school syllabus from 2016A high-level State Institute of Educational Research and Training (SIERT) is doing the syllabus change for class I to VIII, and another com...
22 Oct, 2015, 12.55 PM IST
E-learning tabs for students in schools by next year: Aditya ThackerayStressing that Shiv Sena has kept its poll promise of reducing the weight of school bags, party's Youth Sena President Aditya said e-learni...
15 Jul, 2015, 06.21 PM IST
- RTE burden on schools not to be passed on to students: Kapil Sibal
The government today dismissed suggestions that the burden which private schools will have to bear to implement it will be passed on to the...
18 Apr, 2012, 11.35 AM IST
- CBSE to introduce Mandarin in schools from 2011-12 session
The curriculum is nearly ready and the Board has already written to its affiliated schools giving them the option to take up the course.
05 Dec, 2010, 04.39 AM IST
- NCERT replaces book on Buddha by Nehru's 'Discovery of India'
The NCERT has replaced a book on the life and activity of Gautam Buddha with Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Discovery of India'.
20 Jun, 2008, 06.25 PM IST